One of the intriguing features of the debate about this passage is the balance of arguments back and forth over whether the disputed verses (vv. 43–44) were written by Luke or were instead inserted by a later scribe. The manuscripts that are known to be earliest and that are generally conceded to be the best (the “Alexandrian” text) do not, as a rule, include the verses. So perhaps they are a later, scribal addition.
